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Hunting
“The more things change, the more they stay the same” certainly describes the life Michael Waddell has lived, starting out as a young boy growing up in the woods of a place he calls Booger Bottom, just a stone’s throw from Woodbury. Now he’s a man who makes his living in the woods all across…
You’re never too old to enjoy the great outdoors, and that’s why Viola Gentry, of Sylva, N.C., still climbs in a tree stand every chance she gets, even at the age of 89. While only getting the chance to go hunting with her husband once or twice before he passed away in 1994, she fell…
On Nov. 21, Truth in Nature held its second deer hunt of the fall at Walker Creek Outdoors in Haralson County. Truth in Nature is an outdoor ministry founded in 2009 in Dallas that works with and mentors young men who are from single-parent homes. This particular hunt was a make up for an earlier,…
A special hog hunt would make for the most memorable hunting trip our crew would ever experience. It would involve preparation, manipulation, tons of luck, pure joy and eventually unexpected devastation. These events would be implanted in our minds and engraved in our hearts forever. In February 2006, I was sitting on a rusted, red…
Andy Bedgood is thinking. And thinking. You can almost see the mental wheels turning… Guess I hadn’t realized the complexities of the question before asking, “How many dogs do you have?” “Well,” he soon replied with a rub of whiskers and a signature south Georgia drawl, “Do you mean the ones I have at home…
Many hunters dream of taking a double drop tine buck. Just taking a big buck is hard enough, much less one with double drop tines. Wesley Bennett, of Seville, Fla., recently knocked that off his bucket list—and Wesley is just 12 years old! Wesley’s father, John, bought private land in Brooks County, Georgia in February of 2015. Brooks County…
“I felt strange and somewhat rude as I walked in behind the point and honor—I was a man walking into what was so much like a famous painting that I almost had to laugh. But, if you’re lucky, that’s what a lot of quail hunting is—a series of lovely paintings that we walk into and…
WRD Senior Wildlife Biologist Bobby Bond called it right. He said with record warm temperatures pushing 80 degrees, the bears would be on the move and a high harvest might occur. Bobby nailed it. For middle Georgia’s annual one-day bear hunt, which took place on Saturday, Dec. 13, there were 12 bears checked in. This…
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources recently announced the opening of a 3,986-acre tract in Glynn County along I-95 and the Altamaha River, known as Altama Plantation WMA. Altama Plantation WMA will provide outdoor recreation for hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities, while protecting the water quality around the Altamaha River, the largest recreational and…
Alarm goes off at 4:30 a.m. Quickly it is turned off and forgotten… I have had the good fortune to be part of the same hunting club for more than 28 years. Over this time I have developed great friendships. Being able to laugh at the stupid things we do at camp has been well…
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